The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-18
Colorow's Maraudine Record.

Denver Republican.
The present troubles with the White river
Utes, with old Colorow at their head naturally
recall the stirring events of the celebrated
Meeker massacre, in September 1879. This is
particularly true because the scene of the diff
Guilty is on identically the ground, and
some OF the men who were leaders In that muir
derous onslaught are also in this.
Colorow, who represents all the worst elemen Is
of crankiness. suienness. cunning and cruelty
of the prime movers in the deviltry, but by his
shrewdness he managed to keep himself in the
background. and when Douglas. Cap
tain Jack, Persune and the other
chiefs were captured he escaped to the
mountains. Colorow is of those ignoble
spirits often found among the Indian race
that seek en- joy a portion of the spoil without
sharing the danger of the fray. So it was found
that when the the reservation were
killed and Mrs Meeker. Miss Meeker and Mrs.
Price were made captives, one of the women
was allotted to him. He ought to have been
captured and hanged at that time, and the fail
ure of the authorities to perform that act has
cost the settlers much trouble and property. be-
sides jeopardizing the lives of many citizens, as
the present developments show.
When Chief Ouray died in 1880 Colorow came
forward as a candidate for the dead chiefs moe
casins He was rejected, however. and Chief
Shavano was chosen as the head of the White
river Utes
This so aneered Colorow that he has never
behaved decently since. He has always been
sub-chief and has been considered the leader of
the disturbing element of the tribe
When the White river reservation was aban-
doped by the government and subsequently
opened for settlement by the whites Colorow
refused to assent to the treaty. He would not
sign the papers nor in any way yield what he
claimed were his rights.
The Whiter-river Utes were removed to their
new reservation in Utah, called the Uintah
reservation. Colorow was taken with them,
but as soon the soldiers left, Colorow deserted
the reservation and ever since he has been
menace to the settlers, returning to the reserva-
ton only to get his annutes.
Some time ago Colorow went to what was
previously the reservation from which the In
dams removed and claimed all the land. He
said he had never transferred his interest in the
lands of his fathers and they belonged to him.
He was soon chased away by the soldiers, and
less than six weeks ago was captured and taken
back to the reservation in Utah. The next
the Meekrr Herald few days ago. saying that
Colorow and his band were once more at their
old evil tricks, much to the annoyance of the
people, and predicting the trouble which has
very naturally resulted from the careless
agement given to these affairs by the govern
ment authorities.
Captain Jack, one Of the chiefs implicated in
ment in a military prison in Wyoming, and
killed with Calling gun while trying to escape.
CHIEF Douglas, another cuprit of the
kind, was confined at Fort Leavenworth for two
years at the end of which time he became de-
ranged on account of his i'm prisonment and was
imbecie. One day, while in the company of
three Indians, he Is reported to have attempted
to shoot white man, when his companions
killed him.
Old Colorow should be numbered with Doug
las and Captain Jack